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Decrepitude of the Southern Tier is an ongoing photographic project dedicated to documenting the decline of one of the most economically depressed regions in the northeastern United States.

Decrepitude of the Southern Tier is an ongoing photographic project dedicated to documenting the decline of one of the most economically depressed regions in the northeastern United States.

A dozen or so years ago, when the Internet was still a fairly novel concept and relatively few people knew even the most rudimentary bits of web design, I interviewed Vic Gedris, the Canadian web designer who had assembled the first major directory of punk pages online, World Wide Punk. ...

The Frantics (not to be confused with the Seattle band of the same name or the Frantix, the Denver-based hardcore outfit) were a fairly successful snotcore band during the latter half of the 1990s. On ...

For someone who teaches a college English course centered around literary and cinematic depictions of the apocalypse, there's an inherently pleasing quality to a record as decidedly eschatological as "Winter," Amebix's vital sophomore release. ...

Fifteen years after its release, Hudson's "Out of Gas" EP sounds woefully dated. Like quite a few of their contemporaries, Hudson played a rather generic brand of melodic hardcore that, at its best, evoked Wig Out at Denko's-era Dag Nasty. ...

Over the past half dozen or so years, the Marked Men have earned themselves a reputation for crafting some of the most strikingly original pop-punk records of the decade. With a heavy dose of lo-fi garage ...

Methuen, Massachusetts's Broken Toys have been releasing records for twenty years now and still, for no discernible (or, at the very least, justifiable) reason, hardly anyone other than the most voracious of record collectors seem aware of their existence. It's unforgivable, really.

Decrepitude of the Southern Tier is an ongoing photographic project dedicated to documenting the decline of one of the most economically depressed regions in the northeastern United States.

Decrepitude of the Southern Tier is an ongoing photographic project dedicated to documenting the decline of one of the most economically depressed regions in the northeastern United States.

Although bands like Suicide, Nervous Gender, the Stranglers, and the Screamers made extensive use of synthesizers during the early days of punk, the instrument was always somewhat suspect among punkers ...

Although Chelsea is perhaps better known as the band whose original lineup would become Generation X, the various subsequent incarnations of the group assembled by Gene October produced some really solid music in their own Billy Idol-less right. ...

Decrepitude of the Southern Tier is an ongoing photographic project dedicated to documenting the decline of one of the most economically depressed regions in the northeastern United States.

Decrepitude of the Southern Tier is an ongoing photographic project dedicated to documenting the decline of one of the most economically depressed regions in the northeastern United States.